LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.

Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...

Surveyor's certificate, given after regular RNLI harbour trials, July 21, 1873. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of the US National Archives, Washington, DC. - View image in PDF

Ex-lifeboat A photograph appeared in the spring 1984 issue of THE LIFEBOAT of Hartlepool lifeboat towing in three fishing boats, one of which was Sea Spell. I believe Sea Spell, formerly known as Ladybird, to be an ex-RNLI lifeboat.

24th May.

An aeroplane crashed into the sea. A fishing boat picked up the body of the pilot, and the body of the passenger was recovered later.—Rewards, £10 7s.

AT the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1903, there were embraced in the Life-saving Service of the United States no less than 273 stations, 196 of which were established on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60. on the...

Hovercraft accident AT 1614 on the afternoon of Saturday March 30, 1985, the cross-channel hovercraft, Princess Margaret, radioed to Dover port control that she had collided with the breakwater on entering the harbour. It was cloudy with...

The 20 Branches with the Highest Collection.

WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending 30th September,...

Fitting out of the Institution's second mobile training unit caravan was undertaken by Peter Fulton (centre), honorary training consultant to the RNLI; while work progressed, the caravan was parked outside his home. Helping with the... - View image in PDF